Saw Rise of Skywalker. I don't know what to think
Some of it seemed disjointed. It was 2 1/2 hours long ?
I can't rate it. I don't know if that's bad or good. A lotta "moving parts" in this movie.....I wonder if anyone else felt this way?
If I'm being kind, I'm saying it's okay at best. If I'm being a little more honest, I'm saying it's crap (not shit, but crap
).
There were just so many elements that were dumb for me. Don't want to get into spoilers for people who haven't seen it, but I'll just say this:
The main problem with this new trilogy was the introduction of way too many characters. Finn was pretty much a useless character in 8 and 9 -- he almost could have died at the end of Force Awakens (I would have liked that). Knights of Ren: awesome idea, but again, useless -- they got like 5 minutes total of screen time in all 3 movies, and their ending felt way too rushed -- uncomfortably fit in at the last minute, like a lot of things with ROS. The Kerri Russel character -- another all but useless character who gets two seconds of screen time. I know it's cool for Marvel movies to introduce like 50 fucking characters in one movie, but it doesn't work for Star Wars -- Star Wars is about the characters, and when you have too many, it takes away from all of them.
Someone above mentioned this, but they either should have had one director for all 3 movies, or 3 separate directors for each. Bringing back Abrams for ROS was utterly stupid, in that he tried to reintroduce things that Johnson had eliminated. A fresh director wouldn't have tried to make his initial vision fit even after Johnson had all but destroyed it.
Anyways, ROS was nothing but a treasure hunt. I felt like I was watching Goonies meets Harry Potter -- with the Valdemort-like "my spirit will enter you" garbage between one female protagonist (trying not to spoil) and the main antagonist. I also felt like I was watching a Marvel movie with all the characters that really don't have an ending. The whole Poe, Finn, Rae love triangle thing (or whatever the hell it was) -- just dumb, and never clarified.
Abrams was the worst decision for these movies. Force Awakens was nothing but a carbon copy of A New Hope; and Abrams took absolutely zero risks with Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker. At least Johnson didn't play it safe with Last Jedi -- no one in the world saw Snoke dying; killed Luke; killed the pointless Phasma; Killed Akbar and pretty much all the rebels (how the hell did they get built back up so quickly between Last Jedi and ROS, by the way?). Johnson was actually trying to correct all the mistakes Abrams did, then Abrams gets the helm back, and doubles-down on said mistakes.
Honestly, I'm just glad this new trilogy is over already and I hope that Abrams never touches another Star Wars movie/show again. I hope that the upcoming new trilogy will contain some actual originality, because this one contained zero.
